Radio is dead-Long live the Radio.pdf - Universidad del País Vasco

Welcome to the third age of radio: understanding
radio’s present from radio’s past
Ongietorria irratigintzaren hirugarren garaira:
Irratiaren oraina ulertzen irratiaren iragana arakatuz
Bienvenido a la nueva era de la radio:
entendiendo el presente desde el pasado
radiofónico
Tim Wall
Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies and Director of Research
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
Birmingham City University
tim.wall@bcu.ac.uk
Abstract
This paper will explore the idea that we have entered a new phase in the century-old form
of radio. Although named after the technology on which it was based, radio is best understood
as an institution which organises the corporate structure, content and consumption of
sound broadcasting. The organisation of radio was radically different in its first half century
than it was in its second, and in the same way it is useful to see the present state of radio as
an equally far-reaching shift. Contrasting radio’s near cousins – the podcast, the streamed
music service and the simulcast – I will ask questions about how radio will survive in these
turbulent times of media multiplicity and convergence, how a new generation of listeners will
understand radio, and how radio can engage with listeners in new ways online.
Key words: Radio history, Duke Ellington, Transistor, Car radio, Rock ‘n’ Roll, new music
services, internet radio.
Resumen
Este artículo explora la idea de que hemos entrado en una nueva fase dentro de un espectro
radiofónico que se inicio hace ya más de un siglo. Aunque su nombre tiene el origen en la